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Cough Medicine: It doesn’t work for you or the kids

We all know – don’t we? – that the over-the-counter cough medicines don’t do much to help fight our children’s coughs. So it’s not an enormous leap of logic to conclude that they don’t do much for us... more>

Antidepressants: They’re not as effective as we’re told after researchers suppress the ‘bad’ studies

Doctors and the public may have been misled about the effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. They have both been victims of spin that researchers have put on their findings in order to present the dr... more>

Digestion Drug: Why so many people take it, and so few need it

Every year doctors write out £7bn (US$13.9bn) worth of prescriptions for a drug group that’s designed to treat stomach acid and other digestion problems. And in up to 70 per cent of cases they’re wro... more>

Drug Trials: Drug co accused of using critically ill children as ‘guinea pigs’

Pfizer are back in the dock again, this time for testing an experimental drug on children during a deadly meningitis outbreak. The drug giant faces a fine of $9bn (£.4.5bn) if it is found guilty of t... more>

Pushing Antidepressants: Psychiatrist does 'march of shame'

An American psychiatrist is giving his services for free in what he describes as his “march of shame” after he became an unwitting cog in Wyeth’s marketing machine for its antidepressant Effexor (venl... more>

The 3 most dangerous drugs: They cause a third of all adverse reactions in the elderly

Just three drugs are responsible for a third of all serious adverse reactions among the elderly. The drugs – warfarin, insulin and digoxin – were 35 times more dangerous than the other 41 drugs ident... more>

Avandia: New study confirms it’s a high-risk drug

Avandia, the best-selling diabetes drug, has had the final nail driven into its coffin. It’s just as dangerous as everyone feared, a new study has concluded, and can dramatically increase the risks o... more>

Drug Secrecy: GSK threatened career of whistle-blower

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the drug company, threatened to either sue or ruin the career of a medical researcher who spoke out against its diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone). more>

‘Stop smoking’ drug: It makes you feel suicidal

A new ‘stop smoking’ drug is making users feel suicidal. So far the UK’s drug monitoring body, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA), has received 839 reports of adverse r... more>

Drug Payouts: Pharma giant caught paying doctors

Drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (annual sales: $17.9bn) is “proud of its commitment to conduct business with the highest standards of integrity in its mission to extend and enhance human life”, accord... more>

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